skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, and nope. Neither is true, and both are propaganda.
The linked article describes exactly this 'blob from ChromeOS' approach.
Yes, indeed, Ikea furniture covers a wide range.

For example, my most recent purchase from Ikea was one year ago, when I bought a couple of tables made of steel, on which I keep some E-ATX computer cases.

Those steel tables look like they should last more than a human lifetime.
But how else will people make money than in a global, decentralized pyramid/MLM scheme?
To be honest, there still isn't one.

I am not from US, but from what I saw generally both parties act the same, the exceptions are basically a few personalities that warp the VOTERs around them, but not the people in power.

Trump for the GOP (that seemly only joined the GOP because he could win their primaries... if you take a look on his pre-GOP relationships he had strong ties to democratic party) and Sanders for Democrats (and he is not even officially in the party if I remember correctly, he in the Senate was listed as "independent that sits with Democrats")

Even AOC that famously claim to be socialist got nicknamed in some circles as "Fraud Squad" because despite claiming to be socialist she is voting along status-quo US politics (that is: generally pro-corporations).

Voters believe the parties are different now, but the people elected aren't that different, it is why in USA accusing someone of doing "partisan blocking" makes sense, it is because often when a party is blocking the other, they are doing so for shenanigans, not because they truly believe the proposal is bad, often both parties believe in the proposal but want to play political games.
> With all of that ready to hand, you would think that at least a few Culture citizens would have themselves scanned and uploaded into a computer where they can spend eternity doing whatever they way, including learning how to expand their mind into a Mind.

I recall that it’s implied that a lot of members of the culture are hanging out in perpetual virtual reality, they just aren’t relevant to the story. As for a person becoming a Mind, I think the intention of the books is to convey that the gulf is uncrossable. A person is about as close to being a Mind as a grain of sand is, and new Minds are created exclusively by the existing Minds with care toward preserving the lineage of the Culture’s worldview and feeling of obligation toward stewardship for humans. It’s mentioned that Minds created without this sort of deliberate alignment-interference simply choose immediately to depart the reality that the Culture inhabits.
Idea has levels of quality. But some must view it all as disposable and low quality because how else could they justify spending 3x or more at other furniture stores. Most shop at Ikea for affordability, style options, and a good return guarantee.
Basing your own work on something that doesn't work is incredibly frustrating and can lead to enormous amounts of wasted effort. It doesn't even have to be fraud, there are so many factors you often can't fully control, and reactions can depend on very subtle details or minor impurities.

My impression is that usually the informal communication about stuff "that everyone knows doesn't actually work" is far more efficient than in your case. But this is something the PI has to do, as a new PhD student won't be connected enough for this, and your PI seriously failed you there.

It would be nice if someone published that this method doesn't work, but that doesn't seem to be how this works. The amount of effort to actually demonstrate that it really doesn't work is so much higher than the reward.

In a healthy environment people should have been much more sceptical much earlier. At the latest when you saw potential manipulations in the NMR. I'm curious what kind of artifacts you saw there, did they just remove or add signals?
It's complicated. We can calculate the dissonance (e.g., harmonic entropy) for specific note combinations, but even the best models of consonance and dissonance don't correspond perfectly with human ratings -- nor can be applied to complex sounds.

There isn't a meter capable of showing how consonant or dissonant a song is, at any point in time -- or for the song as a whole.
Pretty sure "old fashioned" people still judge the claims of people and organisations based on their past history.
"but not for ARM since technically they don’t have ARM builds"

What happens if you install Chrome on a new (Arm64 M1) Macbook? This is the sort of situation where I am looking forward to Mac's causing improved ARM support in general.
I’m not sure why this is newsworthy but yes Texas is hard right, Austin is just one of the most left leaning areas of the hard right. Overall it is still one of those places you will want to stay on the interstate and stick to the major cities if your not Caucasian. Nonsense increases the closer to the southern border you get. Cops have no checks in the areas with no cell phone service, if you are driving while anything you’ll get pulled over in those areas.
Bitcoin is still very esoteric, buying bitcoins is nothing like investing in the stock market. A large (or small for that matter) financial institution probably wouldn't want to buy 10 or 100 m worth of bitcoins from Bitmex.
To reiterate what others here are getting at, there is a saying that goes something like "Pick your second favourite hobby as your profession", suggesting that doing it professionaly often ruins it. My old flatmate was a very sort-after chef in the city we lived, getting job offers all over the place and he'd come home every night and make himself instant ramen because he didn't want to spend anymore time in a kitchen.

If you're failry young and unencumbered you have a few options ranging from least drastic like: pick up a new hobby, change teams, change jobs within the company or change jobs completely to a new company and variations on those to most drastic: change professions entirely, go to university, pick up a trade doing something that interests you.
A new, holistic Angular library for Semantic UI
We used this back in the day to make a touchscreen PoS application. It was great as you can switch from running state to dev state without any friction. We quickly went from nothing to production because of visualtcl.
Software in the 21st century: to check a bunch of regex on a text you need: Grafana, APIs, services. Really? I'm surprised there is no k8s in here. /s
Yes, you can turn it into charcoal and bury that.
Just make sure it doesn't catch fire.
If it only were that well. In reality, when I follow people who posts on various niche subjects, it turns out the algorithm believes I'm mostly interested in American Politics because quite a few of those posters are into that and that overshadows all the niche subjects.

Looking at the list of things Twitter believes I'm interested in is quite enlightening about the limits of recommendation engines.
Boy, I did say "any" question...

Well, a key consideration here is that it is really, really hard to get good EEG signal quality, since the fluctuations of voltage at the scalp are very, very tiny...
Great example. Reminds me of Milton Friedman's "Nobody knows how to make a pencil" essay.

A lot of human progress is result of human actions but not planning. Centralized planning around "climate change" would 100% be a recipe for disaster and a monumental failure about which future generations will write for 100s of years just the way we talk about slavery today.

Your use of carbon makes my existence on the planet a bit risky and hence you should pay me some compensation. But how much ? That is an impossible task for anyone and not just for the centralized government systems but even for highly efficient private players looking at very small problems. This is something that even outright climate change deniers like me admit.
Planned obsolescence. I think manufacturers should be required to display clearly how long they think product will last and suddenly ownership turns into a subscription (divide the price by how many months product will last). I think that also should be clearly marked that you won't really own the product. Manufacturers should be required to attach bill of materials and a schematic to the product and it should be illegal to ask chip manufacturer to withdraw sales to consumers willing to repair on their own.
We need to nip these shady practices in the bud!
Exactly. Single absolute numbers are useless for understanding how impactful this change may be. I need to know how much ice there was.
> It's worrying and baffling that someone's source of income can be severed when there has been no evidence of misconduct.

You have zero idea what evidence there is and isn't. The evidence has not been revealed by those involved, and it certainly hasn't been published in this short article you just read.

You just assumed that "she used two sites" was the absolute entirety of the story.
I found the thumb keys were particularly useful for emacs ergonomics: I just have a big thumb key for each of Control and Meta with a smaller thumb key for the other one and shift on each side. I also remind some keys I use often to move them away from the corners. This entirely gets rid of emacs pinky for me. The only issue is I don’t have so many keys but I don’t really need a lot of them (home, end, delete, pgdn) as shortcuts usually suffice.
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Software in general? I'm not sure what that would even mean. But I once made a visualiser for how classes in a given app fit together.
^ This exactly!

"Peer-reviewed" by whom?...
>Ikea is making furniture, something people really need.

Exactly, IKEA *processes* one percent of commercial wood supply to build furniture for people. People who want furniture from IKEA use one percent of commercial wood supply. People want furniture made out of wood.

Same logic applies to oil companies who extract oil and WE use it to drive cars, take buses, use plastics, build roads etc.
Haha, if only...
No. It’s quite clear. People should have the right to pursue dangerous, stupid, crazy, ugly, offensive, illogical activities as well as safe, brilliant, sane, beautiful, flattering, and logical activities.

Your approach results in a star chamber of elites that make value judgments on what people can SAY, which directly impacts what they can DO. Society is limited to their judgment and belief system.

There are countries that exist today with this model, and it is not a pleasant existence to be a regular citizen in those countries especially for creative “weird” people who represent most of the major innovations in the world. Read history and see for yourself how this approach leads to poor outcomes for the majority. In fact, it is at the core of the founding of the United States itself.

One approach leads to a narrow, controlled, and directed society that is controlled by the elite; the other brings breadth and freedom to pursue crazy thoughts that can lead to major innovations.
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Yes, I do the same, only on https://www.zidisha.org/

100 dollars have been used for 500+ loans, the last 8 years or so. While you can pick the recipients yourselves, I've opted for automatic re-lending on the platform.
Manufacturing and building things out of sustainably managed forestry is one of the best ways to sequester carbon while making a profit and producing products people use and value.
Social justice groups warn Biden against throwing out Section 230
I overkill. Mostly I have a trackball in the middle as well as an ergonomic Penguin mouse on the side. I rotate and swap between what is on the left, right and middle. A trackball doesn't need a lot of space.
I switched from fish to zsh once I found this plugin:

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

Now zsh feels just like fish, but with bash-compatible syntax (which was the main day-to-day problem I had with fish, otherwise it's fine, but except for the auto-suggestions I didn't really use any special fish features).
There may be issues in their legal structure the prohibit direct investment or their Board feels more comfortable offloading the technology risk to someone else. Alternatively, they may want certain liquidity features (or other options) that may not be directly available.
> by the time you try to enforce this, the tree would have been fellen, cut, and shipped on a boat to the highest bidder.

That could be true, but only holds for one tree (or a small number of trees). The problem starts when people build a business around trees. By the time their businesses are fully operational you can enforce laws. And this makes it unattractive to even start in this line of business.
> There was a very vocal loony subset, but that is the Internet for you.

No. This attitude has to stop. Having nazis and far-right extremists being vocal on your site is not "the internet for you".

It is a deliberate choice by whoever runs the site to be a welcoming home for the vilest voices.
Everytime I hear the word 'carbon capture' I just think of trees. This is literally what trees do, they capture carbon.
Well, yes and no.
The "self-sustaining city on Mars" bit is a pipedream, and not something we should spend serious amounts of money on in the 21st century.

There are no plausible catastrophes that could hit Earth that wouldn't randomly leave at least as many people still alive on Earth afterwards. The meteor killed most of the dinosaurs because they were unable to adapt to the climate after the impact. But some dinosaur species were able to adapt, thus we have birds today.

Humans are immensely good at adapting. There is no question in my mind that several million people would survive both WW3 and a meteor like what killed the dinosaurs. The humans on Mars are redundant in that case.

The only upside to Musk's idea is he (or at least someone) gets to pick who the survivors will be.

To me the sensible thing to do would be to tax these people (Musk, Bezos, Gates etc) and have the government implement policies that used these funds for socialized healthcare, higher minimum wage, paid parental leave etc. - you know, what all other first-world countries already have.
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Hollywood still archives productions on film. Specifically, color separated film: three rolls of B/W PET-base film, one for each of red, green and blue. These are expected to last 100+ years, are trivial to read and have color stability beyond any kind of color film (because the color information is encoded in black and white films instead of pigments) and offer more than sufficient resolution (they aren't prints, but made using laser film recorders). This sounds expensive but is apparently ~one order of magnitude cheaper long term than digital "archival".

If companies with Hollywood funding consider digital archival too expensive and too fragile... should really tell you something.

Other long-term archives are not digital, either. Germany's Barbarastollen houses thousands of stainless steel barrels with black and white microfilms - about a billion of them.
Not sure about Chrome, but the ARM build of Firefox still uses Rosetta to execute the DRM modules in a separate process. Spotify also does not yet have a universal binary.
This repository was abandoned for a while, so I remixed/forked it into a gallery view with filters. It can be easier to get an overview, or search for something specific (e.g. only a traditional "Microsoft Ergonomic" layout).

https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/

There's also http://xahlee.info/kbd/diy_keyboards_index.html which has reviews.
The annoying thing about IKEA furniture, and that from competitors, is that all it takes is for a tiny piece of particle board to be damaged internally for the whole item to be useless.

Generally, while they are in one piece and not moved, they are fine. But trasnporting or disassembling this stuff is a risk. The tiny wooden pegs, plastic bits and agressive screws going straight into soft board can rip out chunks, snap off, etc. Good luck getting a replacement door, etc.
not as common these days, but it's useful for services allowing people to create custom sites like blogger, where you'd want the comment form to be an iframe/embed of some sort that ties to the account of the platform, and the user-content is on a different domain.
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If you're on Synology, the Synology Moments iOS/Android app supports auto uploading photos to your NAS. The DS File app supports uploading them to Photo Station.
This is kind of disappointing.
They have been profiting from illegal logging for years if not decades.

https://www.channel4.com/news/investigation-thousands-of-tre...

And they also bought entire forests through corrupt companies.
http://skyddaskogen.se/en/news/4852-ikea-s-forest-in-romania...
Quick review of Torula and how to pay with Bitcoin
Surely it is someone decided to run ads against certain profile that fits? But I know Facebook will always get the blame for it.
On the contrary, I explicitly remember this effect making the rounds in many outlets in April:

https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2020-04-26-hvor-taet-er-folk-...
It was closed due to their single financial backer pulling out, not due to being "cancelled" though.
Fraud is the norm? This seems like a likely false statement. I’d love to see data supporting this.
> A few that you trust and where you think that is warranted is a different matter.

We tried that, and the security issues it caused were orders of magnitude more severe than any of the problems caused by defects in an up-to-date browser sandbox. Basically all consumer PCs used to be infested with viruses all the time. It sparked an entire virus scanning industry.

It takes far too much discipline and diligence to make sure that you can trust the motivations and security capabilties of all your software providers. Sandboxing is good. It's the only thing short of the most heavy handed, restrictive and centralised control that has ever worked.

The security issues we have on today's Web are overwhelmingly unrelated to client-side security. The problem is protecting the data that is stored on servers and the incentives created by ad based business models. All of that is equally problematic regardless of whether you run native code or sandboxed JavaScript.
Ok, so I work in healthcare in the US and I read a lot of papers and think "well yeah, but that's not very actionable information".

The best analysis I've found so far is from McKinsey.[1] They took a very clever approach to benchmark US healthcare spending to other OECD countries. They adjusted for US GDP (richer countries spend more on healthcare), then broke down costs by category and figured out how much more/less the US spent compared to OECD countries. Very eye opening if you check out the graph at the bottom of page 4.

Findings: 1) out-patient care is driving ~70% of the extra cost, 2) in-patient costs are ~10% higher than OECD, 3) the US spend 50% more on drugs, but it's a small part of overall spending, 4) administration is 200% higher, but again, it doesn't add up to that much, 5) the US spends less on long-term and home care and 6) the US invests 50% more in healthcare, but it's not a large absolute amount.

[1]https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/dotcom/client_serv...
It could work with Guix: it already works as a universal package manager on top of your distro (with reproducible builds, rollbacks, potentially sandboxed…) and it works with channels: the official one, and others for non-free software etc. I use it on top of Debian to get the recent version of Emacs and some dependencies (vterm).

(https://guix.gnu.org/)
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” - Heisenberg

It doesn’t matter whether I’m atheist or not, but to state that you can fully explain - well - any process of the universe is simply naive. There are areas we know many things about, but biology itself has an enormous amount of accidental complexity, (which is often brought up by atheists as a criticism of design) for example many many signal path ways that do fundamentally the same thing, but differently. Compared to that, spaghetti codes have good architecture.

Whether God exists or not is imo orthogonal to the complexity of the world around us.
Likewise I've had the opposite experience, and many variables to account for as to which is the norm; the type of furniture, the type of owner and environment it was used in and use profile, etc.
> Presumably we don't want coreutils to come packaged as a container, but I don't have a clear answer to where the line should be.

Nothing should come packaged as a container. The home OS should containerize all externally obtained binaries, assigning limited resources to them, as chosen by the user. The package distributors do not get to decide what level of access do they need; from their point of view, all resources are available; but the user must be able to add limits from the other side, unbeknownst to the (potentially hostile) package distributor.
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I'm an open source contributor. I've worked/collaborated with Adafruit. They support the ecosystem. Perhaps they don't blow their own trumpet in this respect (and should, so you could see how the do give back).

My experience is a counter example of your comment, "...instead of contributing to the greater success of the open source maker movement that enables their existence".
It's a large group of companies, with various bits of that group registered in various countries and obviously operating (mainly) in accordance with local laws.

Basically "IKEA" as a total entity is split into two parts, one is the stores and things related to that like customer support and property management. That bit is ultimately owned by a Dutch holding company and then a Dutch foundation.

The other bit is "the concept", the design and production of the furniture, and the logistics. That is ultimately owned by Interogo Foundation registered in Liechtenstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:IKEA_ownership_chart

In practice it's all controlled by the Kamprad family, which currently live in England and Belgium according to wikipedia.

Reportedly the reason to have ownership in the Netherlands is to avoid taxes, which is a integral piece of the IKEA culture of cheapness.
There is one obvious way to add type annotations. The annotations themselves are optional. That's just gradual typing[0], and it doesn't "break" the zen of python any more than having the choice of using a class over free functions in your program.

The meme going around that Python is adding so many features that it's becoming something "not python" is super weird to me, and it appears as though it's propagated since the walrus operator discussion and hasn't really gone away.

All popular languages add features and adapt as new tools, methodologies, and learnings pop up from other communities. This is a good thing (subjective, I guess), and in general I find Python to be somewhat restrained.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual_typing
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Not really surprising news though since It's been a record year for anything semiconductor or tech related.

Even Intel's outdated 9th and 10th gen chips were flying off the shelves and anything truly innovative (RTX 3000 GPUs, Ryzen 5000 CPUs) were paper launches for most consumers with the label "OUT OF STOCK" describing the overall situation.